he is promising laws to protect women and to crack down on sex crimes. in the meantime, the rapists of the 17-year-old in northern india have finally been arrested. >> will the indian government's announcement of stiffer penalties for rapists address the mounting public anger? we put that question "the guardian" newspaper's correspondent in delhi. damage to the extent -- to extend, it is what they have been asking for. some demonstrators are calling for the death penalty for rapists. others have been calling for greater measures of security. but one of the problems is that in india, you often get this cycle whereby you have a crisis, you have an incident, you have public outrage, the government announces a wave of measures, and they're just is not a mechanism there to try to implement -- there just is not a mechanism to try to implement what the government promised. we have seen this before. there are other problems, which is the attitude to rape among government figures, among the authority figures, and among society at large. >> afghan war victims have